Educating women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide on how to go global.
Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), Punjab has already taken an initiative to discover and groom women entrepreneurs who have excellent handicraft skills. The intent is to boost textile exports and help women at the same time develop their capabilities.
Besides local training, the authority has enlisted the assistance of European experts to provide necessary training to these entrepreneurs’ who have an aim to expand their business to European markets.
Read the entire article: Tapping potential: Exploring women entrepreneurship
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Posted by: Laurel Delaney
Baby blanket available at Maki International.
Haven’t heard of Maki? Oprah has. Maki International, founded by Martha Dudenhoeffer Kolodny, is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization working with women throughout Ayacucho, Peru.
Maki International provides the framework for creating, exporting, and selling the beautiful knit goods and handicrafts made using the Peruvian women’s existing talents and traditions. We also offer programs in various life subjects and career opportunities to participants.
Eager to learn more? Don’t wait. Visit Maki International to see how you can contribute and get involved. To order the blanket, as shown above, visit here.
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
A new initiative aims to change the fact that women-owned businesses around the world receive only a fraction of the money that large organizations spend each year on new business contracts.
A half-dozen of the big guys – from IBM to Coca-Cola to Wal-Mart – will award $1.5 billion in contracts to women-owned businesses between 2013 and 2018.
Let’s track it ladies so you can grow your businesses!
In addition to the funds, other large firms and nonprofits are pledging assistance in the form of training, mentoring and strategy development to help women business owners grow and compete more effectively, Elizabeth Vazquez, CEO and co-founder of WEConnect, a women-focused non-profit behind the initiative.
Read the entire article: Global firms commit $1.5B for women-owned businesses
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Posted by: Laurel Delaney
©Laurel Delaney, “Lyon, France”
I am getting ready to attend the 5th edition of the World Entrepreneurship Forum in Lyon, France where thought-leaders from around the world (200 participants from 59 countries) gather to discuss this year’s theme: entrepreneurial ecosystems.
It is well recognized that entrepreneurs cannot succeed in a vacuum. They need customers, partners, suppliers, employees, legal, financial and educational institutions, as well as governmental bodies and proper infrastructure. Ecosystems are made of environment, actors and interactions. This year the participants of the forum will discuss this thematic through an around-the tour of ecosystems highlighting: Highly resource-endowed ecosystems … read more here.
The World Entrepreneurship Forum is the first global think-tank devoted to entrepreneurship creating wealth and social justice. Full disclosure: I am a charter member of WEF.
You can track the event’s activities (in some cases LIVE) at the World Entrepreneurship Forum website (http://www.world-entrepreneurship-forum.com/)
World Entrepreneurship Forum Twitter handle: @WEntFr
And mine is: @LaurelDelaney
I’ll do my best to report out. If I get too busy, I’ll share my findings when I return to Chicago. Meanwhile, have a great week!
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
Happiness through individual initiative — better known as entrepreneurship — is something the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton is very familiar with. After all, did you know:
When Kate was five, her mother, like many aspiring entrepreneurs, saw a niche that could be filled to help others in her situation. As described on the website of the family business, PartyPieces.co.uk, “Carole Middleton founded Party Pieces in 1987 after finding it difficult to source fun, simple party products for her children’s parties.”
Read the entire article: The Entrepreneurs’ Princess
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
© Laurel J. Delaney, 2011
This article, “The End of Men,” by Hanna Rosin published in The Atlantic has absolutely nothing to do with exporting or taking a business global but it does offer an interesting report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way (e.g., earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history— and its vast cultural consequences on a worldwide basis.
Read the entire article here. The comments are worth noting too.
Photo: Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in their famous “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match (1973)
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
